Can airport extreme backup to non-Apple external hard drive?

Can airport extreme backup to non-Apple external hard drive?

Apple does not make external HDDs so you will most likely be using a non-Apple drive for backups.
However, I want to understand your question. Are you asking can you connect an external HDD to an AirPort Extreme for Time Machine backups? If so, Apple does NOT support this feature and I would recommend against it.

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